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1241. Marked Improvement in Post-Operative Craniotomy Wound Care Using 2% Chlorhexidine (CHG) Cloths for Blood Clots Removal and Hair Cleaning in a Photo-Documentation Survey

1288Rapid Dissemination of Universal Decolonization in Adult Intensive Care Units (ICUs) Reduces Healthcare-Associated (HA) Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infections (CLABSI) in over 100 Community Hospitals in a Single Healthcare System. ⬇️

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839. Effect of Clostridioides difficile (C. difficile) Toxin Test Reporting on Clinical Treatment and Outcomes of Toxin-Negative PCR-Positive Patients at Five California Hospitals

84. Evaluation of the NHSN Standardized Infection Ratio (SIR) Risk Adjustment for HO-CDI in Oncology and ICU Patients in General Acute Care Hospitals

851Reducing Bio-burden and Healthcare Associated Infection Risk Among Hospitalized Patients: Adoptability of Chlorhexidine Gluconate Bathing Among Non-ICU Patients.

scientific article published in December 2014

892Cost-Benefit Analysis of Universal Screening and Contact Precautions for Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus Carriers from the Hospital Perspective

scientific article published in December 2014

893. The SHIELD Orange County Project: A Decolonization Strategy in 35 Hospitals and Nursing Homes Reduces Multi-Drug-Resistant Organism (MDRO) Prevalence in a Southern California Region

894. Universal Decolonization in Nursing Homes: Effect of Chlorhexidine and Nasal Povidone–Iodine on Prevalence of Multi-Drug-Resistant Organisms (MDROs) in the PROTECT Trial

scientific article published on 23 October 2019

901Presumptive Isolation or Screen and Isolate for Patients at High Risk for Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: A Monte Carlo Simulation of the Economic Impact to the Individual Hospital.

scientific article published in December 2014

907Validation of Surgical Site Infection Data in California Hospitals Demonstrates Variable Case Identification Following Abdominal Hysterectomy.

scientific article published in December 2014

908Use of Claims Data to Identify Cases of Surgical Site Infection Following Colon Surgery Identified Many Unreported Infections in a State-Wide Validation.

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915Is a hospital's surgical site infection rate among Medicare-insured patients a good indicator of outcome for commercially-insured patients?

scientific article published in December 2014

942How Do Hospitals Detect Outbreaks?

scientific article published in December 2014

A Bayesian model of acquisition and clearance of bacterial colonization incorporating within-host variation

A Bayesian model of acquisition and clearance of bacterial colonization incorporating within-host variation

scientific article published on 22 April 2019

A guide to research partnerships for pragmatic clinical trials

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A systematic literature review and meta-analysis of factors associated with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization at time of hospital or intensive care unit admission

scientific article published on 19 August 2013

Addressing guideline and policy changes during pragmatic clinical trials

scientific article published on 14 May 2019

Aging Population and Future Burden of Pneumococcal Pneumonia in the United States ⬇️

scientific article published on March 23, 2012

Animal and human antibodies to distinct Staphylococcus aureus antigens mutually neutralize opsonic killing and protection in mice.

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Antibiotic-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae in the heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine era: predictors of carriage in a multicommunity sample

scientific article published in October 2003

Are nursing homes less likely to admit methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus carriers?

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Assessing the role of undetected colonization and isolation precautions in reducing methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus transmission in intensive care units

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Association of Open Approach vs Laparoscopic Approach With Risk of Surgical Site Infection After Colon Surgery

scientific article published on 02 October 2019

Attributable healthcare utilization and cost of pneumonia due to drug-resistant streptococcus pneumonia: a cost analysis

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Automated detection of infectious disease outbreaks in hospitals: a retrospective cohort study.

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Automated outbreak detection of hospital-associated pathogens: Value to infection prevention programs

scientific article published on 10 June 2020

Automated tracking and ordering of precautions for multidrug-resistant organisms

scientific article published on 10 February 2015

Beyond 30 days: does limiting the duration of surgical site infection follow-up limit detection?

scientific article published on 20 December 2011

Beyond the Intensive Care Unit (ICU): Countywide Impact of Universal ICU Staphylococcus aureus Decolonization

scientific article published on 11 February 2016

Calculating Power by Bootstrap, with an Application to Cluster-Randomized Trials

scientific article published on January 2016

Carried pneumococci in Massachusetts children: the contribution of clonal expansion and serotype switching.

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Chlorhexidine and Mupirocin Susceptibility of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Isolates in the REDUCE-MRSA Trial.

scientific article published on 24 August 2016

Chlorhexidine and mupirocin susceptibilities of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus from colonized nursing home residents

scientific article published on 12 November 2012

Chlorhexidine versus routine bathing to prevent multidrug-resistant organisms and all-cause bloodstream infections in general medical and surgical units (ABATE Infection trial): a cluster-randomised trial

scientific article published on 05 March 2019

Closing the Translation Gap: Toolkit-based Implementation of Universal Decolonization in Adult Intensive Care Units Reduces Central Line-associated Bloodstream Infections in 95 Community Hospitals

scientific article published on 3 May 2016

Cluster randomized trials in comparative effectiveness research: randomizing hospitals to test methods for prevention of healthcare-associated infections.

scientific article published on June 2010

Colonization with antibiotic-susceptible strains protects against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus but not vancomycin-resistant enterococci acquisition: a nested case-control study

scientific article published on 14 September 2011

Community-level predictors of pneumococcal carriage and resistance in young children.

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Confounding by indication affects antimicrobial risk factors for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus but not vancomycin-resistant enterococci acquisition

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Continued impact of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine on carriage in young children.

scientific article published on July 2009

Cost savings of universal decolonization to prevent intensive care unit infection: implications of the REDUCE MRSA trial

scientific article published on October 2014

Cost-benefit analysis from the hospital perspective of universal active screening followed by contact precautions for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus carriers

scientific article published in January 2015

Cost-effectiveness of strategies to prevent methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus transmission and infection in an intensive care unit

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Daily Chlorhexidine Bathing in General Hospital Units – Results of the ABATE Infection Trial (Active BAThing to Eliminate Infection).

scientific article published on 4 October 2017

Data Sharing and Embedded Research

scientific article published on 3 October 2017

Decolonization to Reduce Postdischarge Infection Risk among MRSA Carriers

Detection of Carbapenem Resistant Enterobacteriace from Fomite Surfaces

scientific article published on 25 May 2020

Developing algorithms for healthcare insurers to systematically monitor surgical site infection rates

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Differences in hospital-associated multidrug-resistant organisms and Clostridium difficile rates using 2-day versus 3-day definitions

scientific article published on 8 October 2014

Differences in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains isolated from pediatric and adult patients from hospitals in a large county in California

scientific article published on 11 January 2012

Discord among Performance Measures for Central Line—Associated Bloodstream Infection ⬇️

scientific article published on December 14, 2012

Diversity and Antibiotic Resistance among Nonvaccine Serotypes ofStreptococcus pneumoniaeCarriage Isolates in the Post–Heptavalent Conjugate Vaccine Era

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Diversity of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strains isolated from inpatients of 30 hospitals in Orange County, California

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Diversity of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains isolated from residents of 26 nursing homes in Orange County, California

scientific article published on 11 September 2013

Does chlorhexidine bathing in adult intensive care units reduce blood culture contamination? A pragmatic cluster-randomized trial.

scientific article published on October 2014

Effect of body surface decolonisation on bacteriuria and candiduria in intensive care units: an analysis of a cluster-randomised trial

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Effectiveness of a multistate quality improvement campaign in reducing risk of surgical site infections following hip and knee arthroplasty

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Electronic health record solutions to reduce central line-associated bloodstream infections by enhancing documentation of central line insertion practices, line days, and daily line necessity

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Electronic solutions to enhance tracking and compliance with mandatory influenza vaccination for all hospital staff

scientific article published on November 2014

Emergence of 19A as virulent and multidrug resistant Pneumococcus in Massachusetts following universal immunization of infants with pneumococcal conjugate vaccine

scientific article published in June 2007

Emergence of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae in Orange County, California, and support for early regional strategies to limit spread

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Environmental Cleaning Intervention and Risk of Acquiring Multidrug-Resistant Organisms From Prior Room Occupants ⬇️

scientific article published on March 28, 2011

Epidemiology and risk factors for Staphylococcus aureus colonization in children in the post-PCV7 era

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Errors in antibiotic transitions between hospital and nursing home: How often do they occur?

scientific article published on 27 September 2019

Estimated burden of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in California hospitals after changes to administrative codes, 2005-2010.

scientific article published on 25 September 2013

Evaluating hospital infection control measures for antimicrobial-resistant pathogens using stochastic transmission models: Application to vancomycin-resistant enterococci in intensive care units

scientific article published on 16 March 2016

Evaluation of the National Healthcare Safety Network standardized infection ratio risk adjustment for healthcare-facility-onset Clostridioides difficile infection in intensive care, oncology, and hematopoietic cell transplant units in general acute-

scientific article published on 13 February 2020

Evidence that pneumococcal serotype replacement in Massachusetts following conjugate vaccination is now complete

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Frequent Hospital Readmissions for Clostridium difficile Infection and the Impact on Estimates of Hospital-Associated C. difficile Burden ⬇️

scientific article published on November 11, 2011

Gastrointestinal disease outbreak detection using multiple data streams from electronic medical records

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Guidance for infection prevention and healthcare epidemiology programs: healthcare epidemiologist skills and competencies

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Harnessing claims to improve detection of surgical site infections following hysterectomy and colorectal surgery.

scientific article published on 28 October 2013

Healthcare Workers and Post-Elimination Era Measles: Lessons on Acquisition and Exposure Prevention

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Healthcare utilization and cost of pneumococcal disease in the United States

scientific article published on 11 March 2011

Healthcare-associated pathogens and nursing home policies and practices: results from a national survey

scientific article published on 23 March 2015

High Prevalence of Multidrug-Resistant Organism Colonization in 28 Nursing Homes: An "Iceberg Effect"

scientific article published on 15 June 2020

High nasal burden of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus increases risk of invasive disease

scientific article published on 23 October 2013

Identifying the effect of patient sharing on between-hospital genetic differentiation of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on 13 February 2016

Immunization, Antibiotic Use, and Pneumococcal Colonization Over a 15-Year Period

scientific article published on 4 October 2017

Impact of 13-Valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccination on Streptococcus pneumoniae Carriage in Young Children in Massachusetts.

scientific article published on 03 October 2013

Impact of Delays between Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute and Food and Drug Administration Revisions of Interpretive Criteria for Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae

scientific article published on 31 August 2016

Impact of Hospital Population Case-Mix, Including Poverty, on Hospital All-Cause and Infection-Related 30-Day Readmission Rates

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Impact of Policies on the Rise in Sepsis Incidence, 2000-2010

scientific article published on 19 January 2016

Impact of a 16-community trial to promote judicious antibiotic use in Massachusetts

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Impact of a Central-Line Insertion Site Assessment (CLISA) score on localized insertion site infection to prevent central-line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI)

scientific article published on 08 November 2019

Impact of an environmental cleaning intervention on the presence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and vancomycin-resistant enterococci on surfaces in intensive care unit rooms

scientific article published on July 2008

Impact of routine intensive care unit surveillance cultures and resultant barrier precautions on hospital-wide methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia

scientific article published on 14 September 2006

Improving methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus surveillance and reporting in intensive care units

scientific article published on 27 December 2006

Improving public reporting and data validation for complex surgical site infections after coronary artery bypass graft surgery and hip arthroplasty.

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Improving the Assessment of Vancomycin‐Resistant Enterococci by Routine Screening

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Inclusion of 30-day postdischarge detection triples the incidence of hospital-onset methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

scientific article published on 23 December 2011

Increased use of second-generation macrolide antibiotics for children in nine health plans in the United States

scientific article published in November 2004

Infection prevention practices in adult intensive care units in a large community hospital system after implementing strategies to reduce health care-associated, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections ⬇️

scientific article published on June 29, 2012

Knowing More of the Iceberg: How Detecting a Greater Proportion of Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) Carriers Impacts Transmission

scientific article published on 31 May 2019

Lack of Comprehensive Outbreak Detection in Hospitals

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Legislative mandates for use of active surveillance cultures to screen for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and vancomycin-resistant enterococci: Position statement from the Joint SHEA and APIC Task Force

scientific article published in March 2007

Legislative mandates for use of active surveillance cultures to screen for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and vancomycin-resistant enterococci: position statement from the Joint SHEA and APIC Task Force

scientific article published on 7 February 2007

Long-term care facilities: important participants of the acute care facility social network?

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Marked reduction in compliance with central line insertion practices (CLIP) when accounting for missing CLIP data and incomplete line capture

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Medicare claims can be used to identify US hospitals with higher rates of surgical site infection following vascular surgery.

scientific article published on October 2014

Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Carriage in 10 Nursing Homes in Orange County, California ⬇️

scientific article published on November 18, 2010

Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infection and Hospitalization in High-Risk Patients in the Year following Detection ⬇️

scientific article published on September 16, 2011

Methicillin‐Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Burden in Nursing Homes Associated with Environmental Contamination of Common Areas ⬇️

scientific article published on June 5, 2012

Modeling the regional spread and control of vancomycin-resistant enterococci

scientific article published on August 2013

Modeling the spread of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) outbreaks throughout the hospitals in Orange County, California

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Multi-institute analysis of carbapenem resistance reveals remarkable diversity, unexplained mechanisms, and limited clonal outbreaks

scientific article published on 17 January 2017

New Approaches to Estimating National Rates of Invasive Pneumococcal Disease

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Nursing home characteristics associated with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Burden and Transmission ⬇️

scientific article published on October 24, 2012

Objective Sepsis Surveillance Using Electronic Clinical Data

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Parental knowledge about antibiotic use: results of a cluster-randomized, multicommunity intervention

scientific article published on 01 April 2007

Patient sharing and population genetic structure of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article (publication date: 24 April 2012)

Planned Analyses of the REDUCE MRSA Trial

scientific article published on January 2014

Pneumococcal carriage and antibiotic resistance in young children before 13-valent conjugate vaccine

scientific article published on March 2012

Post-PCV7 changes in colonizing pneumococcal serotypes in 16 Massachusetts communities, 2001 and 2004.

scientific article published in September 2005

Postdischarge Infection Risk among MRSA Carriers. Reply

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

Pragmatic clinical trials embedded in healthcare systems: generalizable lessons from the NIH Collaboratory

scientific article published on 18 September 2017

Predicting high prevalence of community methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains in nursing homes

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Predictors of hospitals with endemic community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

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Prevalence of and Factors Associated With Multidrug Resistant Organism (MDRO) Colonization in 3 Nursing Homes.

scientific article published on 27 September 2016

Protective effect of methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus carriage against methicillin-resistant S. aureus acquisition in nursing homes: a prospective cross-sectional study

scientific article published on 3 September 2014

Public reporting of health care-associated surveillance data: recommendations from the healthcare infection control practices advisory committee.

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Quantifying interhospital patient sharing as a mechanism for infectious disease spread

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Quantifying the Exposure to Antibiotic-Resistant Pathogens Among Patients Discharged From a Single Hospital Across All California Healthcare Facilities

scientific article published on 21 September 2015

Quantifying the Impact of Extranasal Testing of Body Sites for Methicillin-ResistantStaphylococcus aureusColonization at the Time of Hospital or Intensive Care Unit Admission ⬇️

scientific article published on December 21, 2012

Ranking Hospitals Based on Colon Surgery and Abdominal Hysterectomy Surgical Site Infection Outcomes: Impact of Limiting Surveillance to the Operative Hospital

scientific article published on 01 September 2018

Re-emergence of the type 1 pilus among Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates in Massachusetts, USA.

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Recommendations for metrics for multidrug-resistant organisms in healthcare settings: SHEA/HICPAC Position paper .

scientific article published in October 2008

Reductions in Clostridium difficile Infection (CDI) Rates Using Real-Time Automated Clinical Criteria Verification to Enforce Appropriate Testing.

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Reply to Crnich and Drinka ⬇️

scientific article published on June 1, 2013

Reply to O'Riordan et al.

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Reporting surgical site infections following total hip and knee arthroplasty: impact of limiting surveillance to the operative hospital

scientific article published on 2 August 2013

Risk of acquiring antibiotic-resistant bacteria from prior room occupants

scientific article published on 01 October 2006

Risk of infection and death due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in long-term carriers

scientific article published on July 2008

Risk of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection after previous infection or colonization

scientific article published on 17 January 2003

Risk of postdischarge infection with vancomycin-resistant enterococcus after initial infection or colonization ⬇️

scientific article published on October 27, 2010

Serotype specific invasive capacity and persistent reduction in invasive pneumococcal disease

scientific article published on 26 October 2010

Simulation shows hospitals that cooperate on infection control obtain better results than hospitals acting alone

scientific article published on October 2012

Social network analysis of patient sharing among hospitals in Orange County, California.

scientific article published on 17 February 2011

Standardized Infection Ratio for Surgical Site Infection after Colon Surgery: Discord in Models Measuring Healthcare Quality.

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Staphylococcal enterotoxin P predicts bacteremia in hospitalized patients colonized with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on 16 September 2013

Statistical detection of geographic clusters of resistant Escherichia coli in a regional network with WHONET and SaTScan

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Strain-relatedness of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates recovered from patients with repeated infection

scientific article published on April 2008

Strategies to prevent methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus transmission and infection in acute care hospitals: 2014 update

scientific article published on July 2014

Strategies to prevent methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus transmission and infection in acute care hospitals: 2014 update.

scientific article published on September 2014

Substantial shifts in ranking of California hospitals by hospital-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection following adjustment for hospital characteristics and case mix.

scientific article published on 2 September 2014

Substantial variation in hospital rankings after adjusting for hospital-level predictors of publicly-reported hospital-associated Clostridium difficile infection rates

scientific article published on April 2015

Successful strategies for high participation in three regional healthcare surveys: an observational study ⬇️

scientific article published on December 30, 2011

Surgical Site Infections: Volume-Outcome Relationship and Year-to-Year Stability of Performance Rankings.

scientific article published on 11 August 2016

Surgical site infection surveillance following ambulatory surgery

scientific article published on February 2015

Targeted versus universal decolonization to prevent ICU infection

scientific article published on 29 May 2013

The CDC SHIELD Orange County Project – Baseline Multi Drug-Resistant Organism (MDRO) Prevalence in a Southern California Region.

scientific article published on 4 October 2017

The Economic Value of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae Toolkit.

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The Limited Utility of Ranking Hospitals Based on Their Colon Surgery Infection Rates

scientific article published on 09 January 2020

The Potential Trajectory of Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae, an Emerging Threat to Health-Care Facilities, and the Impact of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Toolkit

scientific article published on 8 February 2016

The Regional Healthcare Ecosystem Analyst (RHEA): a simulation modeling tool to assist infectious disease control in a health system

scientific article published on 09 April 2013

The SHIELD Orange County Project -Multi Drug-Resistant Organism (MDRO) Prevalence in 21 Nursing Homes and Long Term Acute Care Facilities in Southern California

scientific article published on 01 October 2019

The evolving landscape of healthcare-associated infections: recent advances in prevention and a road map for research.

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The importance of nursing homes in the spread of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) among hospitals

scientific article published on March 2013

The patient's perspective on the need for informed consent for minimal risk studies: Development of a survey-based measure

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The potential regional impact of contact precaution use in nursing homes to control methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on 18 December 2012

The spread and control of norovirus outbreaks among hospitals in a region: a simulation model

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Tracking the spread of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) through clinical cultures alone underestimates the spread of CRE even more than anticipated.

scientific article published on 28 March 2019

Trends in antibiotic use in Massachusetts children, 2000-2009

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Trials without tribulations: Minimizing the burden of pragmatic research on healthcare systems

scientific article published on 29 July 2015

Use of Medicare claims to identify US hospitals with a high rate of surgical site infection after hip arthroplasty.

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Use of Medicare claims to rank hospitals by surgical site infection risk following coronary artery bypass graft surgery.

scientific article published on August 2011

Use of Medicare diagnosis and procedure codes to improve detection of surgical site infections following hip arthroplasty, knee arthroplasty, and vascular surgery.

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Variable Case Detection and Many Unreported Cases of Surgical-Site Infection Following Colon Surgery and Abdominal Hysterectomy in a Statewide Validation

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Vital Signs: Estimated Effects of a Coordinated Approach for Action to Reduce Antibiotic-Resistant Infections in Health Care Facilities - United States

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Voluntary to Mandatory: Evolution of Strategies and Attitudes toward Influenza Vaccination of Healthcare Personnel ⬇️

scientific article published on November 22, 2011

What Is Nosocomial? Large Variation in Hospital Choice of Numerators and Denominators Affects Rates of Hospital-Onset Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus ⬇️

scientific article published on September 19, 2012

When a Home is Not a Home: MultiDrug-Resistant Organism (MDRO) Colonization and Environmental Contamination in 28 Nursing Homes (NHs).

scientific article published on 4 October 2017

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